The Armattan Marmotte is the culmination of everything that Armattan learned during the design process of their previous flagship multi-rotors. The design is clean and sturdy, the cage has been redesigned and is entirely in Titanium to protect your camera.
This new frame is approx 115 grams, made of 4 mm carbon with a life time warranty on all Carbon Fiber and metal pieces!
The tilting mechanism can be oriented to a low 10 degrees or so up to 90 degrees. The front camera position now remove props from view of the HD stream.
The frame is 5 inch prop compatible, but the longer body means you can more easily fit an HD camera and a bigger lipo, even at higher tilt. It is definitely bigger compare to my previous Armattan Chameleon Ti 5” (top).
The longer body means you can more easily fit a GoPro/ DJI HD camera and a bigger lipo (4 to 5S)
Mounting the Armattan Marmotte
This Bag contains everything needed to build your Armattan Marmotte 5 Dji Edition
A lot of space to mount your DJI Air Unit. A custom 2 sided 3M foams to mount the DJI Air Unit is provided and reduce damages during impacts.
Zoom on the titanium tilting mechanism that fully protect your DJI camera.
4 screws to secure your flight controller. I personally don’t like the fact that the controller is not in the middle of the X shape like in the Armattan Chameleon.
Mounting the electronic together.
The DJI Air System has plenty of space. An extended-aluminum rear provides a protected tail, the raised lips on the front and rear metal help keep you from damaging the carbon frame.
This controller feels so nice in the hands and the digital gimbals are very nice with exception of a very light spring tension, but the best part is when you look at your receiver tab in Betaflight there is zero Jitter on your RX channels.. So no more need for dead band to compensate for the analog Jitter. I’m currently considering the TBS Tango 2: native crossfire, smaller, and not so heavy (603Gr vs 569g)
OpenTX developer crew is now porting a fully functioning version of OpenTX for this radio. They appear to be doing exactly that for the upcoming release of OpenTX v2.4. The Pull Request #7376 is still open as of today.
Picade is a Raspberry Pi-powered mini arcade that you build yourself, with authentic arcade controls, a high resolution 4:3 display that’s ideal for retro gaming, and a punchy speaker to hear those 8-bit game soundtracks at their best.
The Neo Geo mini is a dedicated miniature home arcade console developed by SNK as part of the company’s 40th Anniversary celebration, released on July 24, 2018. The design for the Neo Geo Mini is inspired by the original MVS arcade cabinet, with a joystick style controller, stereo speakers, and a 3.5 inch display. Each side has a USB-C port for controller support, while the back of the unit features the power switch, a USB-C port to power the unit, a headphone jack, and a mini-HDMI port to connect to an HD television. Aside from the Mini itself, the package includes a USB power cable, two mini-marquee stickers that can be placed directly above the screen, and a Neo Geo sticker.
Features 40 Classic titles including all six Samurai Shodown games which released on the NEOGEO platform
Includes two Controllers, One collectable character card, One HDMI cable, One USB power cable, One anti-slip cushion and one character sticker.
Features 40 classic titles including all six Samurai Shodown games which released on the neogeo platform
Each color is limited to 20, 000 units worldwide, and each unit comes with two controllers, one collectible character card, one HDMI cable, one USB power cable, one anti-slip cushion and character stickers.
Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984. Radica Games Limited (founded in 1983) is a company that produces electronic games. On October 3, 2006, Mattel, Inc. announced the completion of their acquisition of Radica. The Radica Tetris unit comes with two specially designed controllers containing several variants of the classic Russian puzzler: Tetris, Battle Tetris, Garbage, Timed and Hotline. Two player frenzy-plug in a second controller, play head to head. Controller is 6×2-1/2×3-1/2″. Uses 4 AA batteries
The game is in the controller itself, and plugs directly into your TV
NAS are very popular these days; for people who can not afford a professional NAS or a sub 1000 system, the idea of recycling an old pc come quickly to mind. What is a little bit more difficult is to find the right hardware and software combination. I higly recommend Promise SATA raid controller for their #Linux native support, while for software I came across OpenFiler; an open source project which has professional functionnalities…
Openfiler is a powerful, intuitive browser-based network storage software distribution. Openfiler delivers file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking in a single framework. Openfiler sits atop of CentOS #Linux (which is derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise #Linux vendor). It is distributed as a stand-alone #Linux distribution.
The entire software stack interfaces with third-party software that is all open source. File-based networking protocols supported by Openfiler include: NFS, SMB/CIFS, HTTP/WebDAV and FTP. Network directories supported by Openfiler include NIS, LDAP (with support for SMB/CIFS encrypted passwords), Active Directory (in native and mixed modes) and Hesiod. Authentication protocols include Kerberos 5. Openfiler includes support for volume-based partitioning, iSCSI (initiator), scheduled snapshots, resource quota, and a single unified interface for share management which makes allocating shares for various network file-system protocols a breeze.
Note that I am currently thinking on buying a ReadyNAS NV becuse of its size
Setting up heli, not an easy task at all, because it is the first time that i set up a CCPM helicopter. You can can find an help at www.jason.net/ where the complete setup is explained. Since this helicopter is a 12 cells, i can use the 6 battery from my eRaptor (24 x 12 RC2000 + 4 x 12 RC2400), cool !
I bought Realflight deluxe refurbished for 100€ in 2001 with the plastic controller box then the update Realflight G2 for another 100€….expensive at first sight but it save me so much money (at least 100 times more).
– Nice looking, maybe the best graphics on the market today.(see raptor 30 with add on 3) – Possibility to simulate flight failures, – Network gaming (if you have a permanent internet access) – A lot of new color schemes can be found freely on internet (see below in links), but it is only a skins for existing helicopter or airplanes. – You can build airport but you have a limited number of items. – You can record your flights and demo, distribute them, – There is a virtual instructor to learn new tricks, – Games in games : events like auto rotation, precision landing.
– Helicopter simulation is no realistic at all ! but I slowly discover why it is so bad (you do not notice it till you do not display the frame rate): go to section : Increase realism – No graphical editor for airplanes and helicopter : KnifeEdge (the editor) want to sell add on at very high prices. – Overall bad realism….why ? if you want to recognize a good simulator, measure data on your model and put it into the simulator, if the feeling is different then something is wrong in the physical model. – Crazy protecting system! you must always have the Realflight CD inserted! and sometimes Realflight is asking you all others CD : RF deluxe, then Cd update the add on 2 then add on 3 etc : it is slow, disturbing and can be easily out-pass with daemon tools (note that version 2.00.570 seem not to accept any virtual CD, Hey knife edge that is not in the software release note !). Why do they not use a dongle instead ? – The wind affects are not properly modeled, the wind in the sim is linear from the ground up in the real word the height causes a much greater affect. additionally the turbulence is (for want of a better word) “swirling” and has both vertical as well as horizontal components. The settling with power is totally absent from the sim, as a result it is not very useful. – Flight Model is TOO EASY, and still too SLOW. A way too much inertia.
My Wishes
Open the physic engine, so we can tune equations or use better equations if CPU power is enough (what do you do with 2800 MHz ????)
Better simulation of helicopter inertia…
Better simulation of wind or at least with more tuning options
Vortex ring problem
helicopter editor or at least release some converter or open the internal specs of file, Some of us can write an editor.
A Draganflyer quad-copter!!!!
Sell a helicopter version/ a airplane version / a full version
More helicopter lessons (instructor)
overall improve the physic engine, in reality things get worse really faster than in simulator.
When will Knife Edge open their physic engine (equations), so we can tune or rewrite them ?? When will Knife Edge release their format specs so people can build planes editor ? I would like to say : NEVER since they release quite expensive ad-dons (which bring nothing)
Conclusions
– There is no other simulator which is so nice, even if the physic is so bad.
Change characteristics in order to match the natural instability of helicopter : – edit the aircraft and reduce weight of paddle : raptor 30 has 35 gr, reduce it to 10 gr not less otherwise rolls won’t work anymore. – Of course do not fly without wind.
improve response of heli: – edit the aircraft and reduce speed of servos : default is 0.22 sec/60°, reduce it to 0.02 sec/60° – reduce exponential on all command.
Improve physics : – deactivate the grass in the airport : it is consuming alone nearly 30 fps on my PC 1 – As a rule : deactivate every graphics till you did not reach at least 60 fps (or more) in all flight configuration (when you are in front of trees, houses etc, if the frame rate drop, the helicopter is out of control).
The helicopter is difficult to maintain ? to fly ? and you crash in less than 3 second ? welcome back to some reality !!!!!! As a result on my PC nearly every visual enhancement are switch off, but that is the cost for having a little more reality. (just to say I bought CSM 10.1 on eBay…..)
PC 2 I’ve tested Realflight on my PC (see above) and on the following : Athlon Xp 1600, Leadtek geforce TD 2500 (geforce4 4400 overclocking @ 4600), 512 Mo DDR 266Mhz, IBM 80 Go 7200 tr/min UDMA100, all test at 1280×1024 32bits
PC 4 NVIDIA Nforce2, duron 800 Mhz, Hercules GeForce 2 GTS 64Mo, 512 Mo DDR 2700, IBM60Go + IBM80Go + MAXTOR120Go 7200 tr/min UDMA133, all test at 1280×1024 32bits
PC 3 I’ve tested Realflight on my PC (see above) and on the following : Athlon Xp 2800, Leadtek geforce TD 2500 (geforce4 4400 overclocking @ 4600), 1024 Mo DDR 266Mhz, IBM 80 Go 7200 tr/min UDMA100, all test at 1280×1024 32bits
What I have noted on PC 2 – If you deactivate nearly everything, the FPS (frame per second) counter seem to reach limit value which is near 90 fps. – Grass is consuming alone > 20 fps ! – People and in fact increasing number of object to the max let you go between 40 and 45 fps (was below 20 fps on PC 1), which should be enough, but the problem is the frontier between 80 fps and 45 fps, some glitches are encountered and when flying you feel the changes.
My Conclusion
f you want to make a demo, activate every items otherwise deactivate as much items as possible ! in fact nobody is flying beside trees or walls in real life… if you do so maybe your flying field is not well choose. It make no sense to go for a new PC, It seems to me that bad performances, or non linear increase in fps is due to bad programming or overflow in current PC architecture. Remember that a GeForce 2 is 4 times less expensive than a GeForce 4
Michael Prewitt and his excellent website www.raptortechnique.com (a must in English) is providing helicopter script and color scheme for the raptor 30. note that addon 3 contain the most realistic view of a raptor 30 and 60 look (see the pic on the top of this page). Of course they fly bad… 😦
Search with google for the “G2 exchange page”, a lot of airport, color scheme, planes and heli for free.
Want to practice auto rotation ? instead of using the switch (throttle cut) use a very small tank (30 cc) and fly….till you run out of fuel.
Be careful to learn on both sides ! like me you may prefer to turn always from the same side : that’s bad ! and when you go back to field you are petrified….
With the latest CD burner (philips, acer some plextor), it is possible to out-pass the safe-disk 2 protection of G2 (burner must support EFM (hardware) or be recognized by clone cd in order to use the AWS function (Amplify weak sector)). I prefer to made an image of the CD, then use daemon tool and daemon ui. NO NEED TO INSERT THE CD anymore, Realflight g2 start in 5 seconds, ahhhh marvelous…
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